Cullen v Stanley
| Jurisdiction | Ireland |
| Judgment Date | 06 March 1926 |
| Docket Number | (1925. No. 1806.) |
| Date | 06 March 1926 |
| Court | Supreme Court (Irish Free State) |
S. C.,
Cullen
and
Stanley and others
Candidate for DÃ il Eireann - Definition of "candidate" - Libel - Interlocutory injunction - Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Act (46 47 Vict., c. 51), s. 63 (1) - Prevention of Electoral Abuses Act, 1923 (No. 38 of 1923), s. 11 (1) and (5).
By s. 11 (1) of the Prevention of Electoral Abuses Act, 1923 (No. 38 of 1923): —"Every person who, before or during any election and for the purpose of affecting the return of any candidate at that election, makes or publishes any false statement of fact in relation to the personal character or conduct of such candidate . . . shall be guilty of an illegal practice"; and by sub-s. (5): —"Any person who shall make or publish any such false statement...
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Evans and Renaissance Products Ltd and another v Carlyle
...should be granted - Campus Oil v Minister for Industry (No 2) [1983] IR 88 applied; Bonnard v Perryman [1891] 2 Ch 269, Cullen v Stanley [1926] IR 73, Sinclair v Gogarty [1937] IR 377 and Cogley v Radio Telefis Éireann [2005] 4 IR 79 considered - Injunction granted (2007/5496P - Hedigan ......
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Lidl Ireland GmbH v Irish Farmers Association, Tim Cullinan and Brian Rushe
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1 books & journal articles
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The Relevane of Constitutional Rights to the Granting of an Interlocutory Injunction
...by Cooke J in Quinlavan v O’Dea [2009] IEHC 187, at para.20 71 Citing with approval the decision of the Supreme Court in Cullen v Stanley [1926] IR 73. 72 Reynolds, supra note 67, p.212 73 When discussing the “special factors” that arise for consideration in cases of defamation cases, Keane......